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free-hearted

free-hearted

See also: freehearted

English

Adjective

free-hearted (comparative more free-hearted, superlative most free-hearted)

  1. Alternative form of freehearted
    • 1897, Nathaniel Hawthorne, St. Ives:
      I was not made of sugar, I was no mollycoddle to be afraid of an ill-aired bed or a sprinkle of snow; and I would knock upon the table with my fist and call for t'other bottle, like the noisy and free-hearted young gentleman I was.
    • 2009, Charles Lever, One of Them, ISBN 1434451577, page 28:
      He was simply one of those many thousand England yearly turns out from her public schools of fine, dashing, free-hearted, careless boys, whose most marked feature in character is a wholesome horror of all that is mean or shabby.